Depth over distance
Some of the best stories ever written begin with so there is this girl, right?…
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Space Lounge
As far as I was concerned, I had done nothing wrong. Everyone could see that…
The Alchemist
Sometimes I think about them, you know? The other half of my family. I think about the ones who left and wonder about what they’d think of us now.
The healing of Yazmin Lacey
Heal yourself. Where does music come from? And how is it that someone knows how…
Never too much
The first time I heard Luther Vandross’ ‘Never Too Much’, it was from my father’s prized radio system. I must have been about 8 or 9. It was a grave mistake, because all our radio listening privileges had been taken away for a whole month.
Jarhead
The point here is that surviving Nairobi without being conned is an extreme sport. An average Nairobian is in a constant state of thief-dodgery. But you know what? At least all these kleptos want is money. Money can be made again.
I have agreed
There will always come a time in the life of a Luo man when he…
Death by WhatsApp
It was like being in a WhatsApp group with one person. And I did not understand why she could not get it. There you are doing a monologue in someone’s DM and after going on and on with your TED Talk and nobody is responding, si you should know that person is not interested? And what’s worse was that at the time I was going through a writer’s block. This is the first post I am putting up in two months. But because God is a humorist, he denied me words and put them in the fingers of this woman.
Moving the goalposts
t the age of six, I was learning to use the words uncle and aunty…